I Am Alone

Chapter 25: The Egg

I'm calibrating the ballista when I here a bunch a hissing and thumping, Aphmau and I look up at each other before sprinting out of the workshop, there, Obsidian is extremely happy, and it only takes a second to figure out why.

The Egg had started to crack, its red shell becoming softer.

We huddle around the Egg as a black reptilian mouth pokes through the soft shell, small little teeth and a forked tongue.

"Is that?" A pair of leathery black wings poke through the shell, a large, snake-like head and two fiery red eyes, a long tail and jets of steam bellowing out of its nostrils.

"That, is a dragon, a wyvern, to be exact." I say, dumbfounded and proud of myself to know I won the bet of not being able to create a dragon.

It sneezes and shoots a jet of lightning out of its mouth, and then immediately jumps onto my face. Even though it's very tiny, I still don't want it on me, it could set the entire house on fire.

It's making a very high pitched sound while curling up on my head, its body is very warm, and it flaps its wings creating a small breeze:

"Aaron......YOU MADE A DRAGON?!" Aphmau looks ticked as the baby dragon peeps and scratches the top of my head.

"Um, Yes? Maybe? Hey I was challenged, this is what happens when you challenge a geneticist!" The dragon snuggles and curls on my head, blowing warm steam on my hair.

"Aphmau we have a bigger problem, There is a mama dragon on this island, and I stole an egg."

Her eyes grew big and she looked down to the floor, The start of a panic attack.

"Oh, God, Oh God, we are dead, we are going to die in this island." She leaned against the wall, her head on it, and just sat there mumbling to herself about how dead we are.

"No, the nest was abandoned, this little fella was thought to be a bad egg. Nope, just a late bloomer." I scratch the baby dragons head and it makes a high pitched growling noise as it closes its eyes.

"So?! There are fully grown Dragons on the island, that breath lightning ! We are one hundred precent dead!" I grab her, with the dragon still on my head and kiss her, before roughly pinning her against the wall.

"You have to remember that I created these things, and If I know myself I would have put a weak spot somewhere, just so nothing is completely invincible"

"But yeah Dragons are an issue." A weak memory flashes before my eyes.

"I'm only going to make one, I just hope that it doesn't retain the ability to reproduce with just itself, that will come back and bite me if it does." It had taken months of experimentation , but I finally had an actual dragon, it would be huge, but elusive, and can breathe a lightning so hot it can melt flesh.

"Right, Right. I assume you'll leave on promotion to head scientist tomorrow?" Armin asks, watching me insert snake DNA into a developing embryo.

"Yes. Then Finally I can move onto the Greenhouse project, where I can start on developing plants." I insert Tapejara(A kind of flying reptile) DNA into the embryo and then leave it with my surrogate mother, a large monitor lizard named Monty.

"I see. And uh, your going to leave everything here?" He asks suddenly and I turn around curiously. Glancing at the growth hormones on my desk.

"I mean, most things, I'll probably only take a few creatures under my care, I don't really know what I'm going to do with the rest." His eyes light up and he types some things on the keyboard.

"Leave that to me, I'll sort out all of your creations."

"Yeah, besides, these things have growth hormones in them, so this baby will be be fully grown few years." It hangs its black wings off my head, it looks like I have a winged hat.

"Is there any reason for me to complete the ballista then?" She asks, hoping all that work wasn't for nothing.

"No, complete it, it will be useful for more than birds anyway, not to mention I want to leave within the month, not in three years, and while you do that." I glance up to the tiny dragon on my head. "I'll take care of this little guy."

I take him off my head and he licks my face, it tongue being extremely hot.

It's a boy, and he has two legs, and two very large, wings, a tail that's over half the length of his body, and teeth that are small but deadly sharp.

"Why did I make you so scary?" He cocks his head and bites my fingers, it feels like razor blades.

"Ow. Don't do that buddy." I look at its eyes and they burn with heat, what did I put into them that allowed them to shoot lightning?

"Hmmm..... You need a name bud." He wags his scaled tail merrily and shocks me with his nose.

Static electricity?

There might be a muscle that contracts to build up enough electricity, or maybe it's like an electric eel and absorbs electrons from its surroundings?

"How about..... Zeus? He nods, I had to have made him intelligent, or talking to him would be useless.

               "Welcome to the family Zeus."